REPERTORY
Günter and Arabian Dance in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo and Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Wolfgang Amadeus in "Windows on MOZART"
Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko in "The Seagull"
Cassio in "Othello"
The Angel in "The Legend of Joseph"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Kiefaber and Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Man in the Shadow and Count Alexander in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
A Man in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Serge Diaghilev and Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Albert in "Giselle"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
Peer Gynt in "Peer Gynt"
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Madge, a Witch in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Man in Purple in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)

REPERTORY
Lady Capulet and Rosalind in "Romeo and Juliet"
Cinderella, Cinderella's Mother, A Stepsister and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Eleonora Bereda in "Nijinsky"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise and La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Giselle and Myrtha in "Giselle"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
Solveig and Aase in "Peer Gynt"
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Mauve and in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Wife and the Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

CREATIONS
Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
The Star of the Revue in "The Seagull"
Carsten in "Préludes CV"
The Fisher King in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
A Shepherd in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Liliom in "Liliom"
The Bear/Prince N. in "Tatiana"
The Mentor (Arrigo Boito) in "Duse"
Peppo in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)

REPERTORY
Endymion and Eros/Thyrsis/Orio in "Sylvia"
The Evil Fairy and A Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty"
King Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet"
Antonio in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Theseus/Oberon, Lysander, Flute/Thisbe and Bottom/Pyramus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Drosselmeier, Günther, La Fille du Pharaon und Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
Gaston and Monsieur Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
Count Alexander and The Man in the Shadow in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Hilarion in "Giselle"
Serge Diaghilev, The Golden Slave in "Sheherazade" and The Faun in "L'Après-midi d'un faune" in "Nijinsky"
Sir Lancelot in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Peer Gynt in "Peer Gynt"
Oliver and Jaques in "As You Like It"
Gustav von Aschenbach und The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
He in "Odyssey"
Mercution and Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet"
The Music and Leopold Mozart in "Windows on MOZART"
A Bird Spirit in "A Cinderella Story"
Edvard/The Prince in "The Little Mermaid"
Boris Alexeyivich Trigorin in "The Seagull"
Gahmuret in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Potiphar in "The Legend of Joseph"
Dorkon in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Stanley Kowalsky in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
The Time in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
The Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
The Husband in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Walter Gropius in "Purgatorio"
The Doctor / Serge Diaghilev in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Othello in "Othello"
Eugene Onegin in "Tatiana"
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin in "Anna Karenina"
Magdaveya, Head Fakir in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Colas in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
Man in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Eugene Onegin and Prince Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Husband in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Don Quixote in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

GUESTING
Queensland Ballet (Australia), Stuttgart, Oslo, London and Buenos Aires. The Kremlin Gala "Ballet Stars of the 21st Century" with Alina Cojocaru.
He worked on Donya Feuer's documentary: "The Work of Utopia".
Danced "The Man in the Shadow" in the DVD production of "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'".

AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 1999
Benois de la Danse 2012 for his interpretation of Liliom in "Liliom"
"Dancer of the Year 2012" – German "tanz" magazine

REPERTORY
Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
Lionel in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
A Minister in "A Cinderella Story"
Petrushka in ‘Petrushka’ and Stanislav Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Count N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
Quadrille and The Speaker in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Philostrat/Puck and Flute/Thisbe in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Hermes, the Psychopomp and Hermes' Attendant in "Orpheus"
Shaw in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Touchstone in "As You Like It"
Sebastian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
A Soldier (Moresca Dance) in "Othello"
Hilarion in "Giselle"
Mads Moen in "Peer Gynt"
a shephard in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Alain in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
Man in Brick in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Shy Boy in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Giacomo in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Gamache in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

AWARDS
Finalist at the International Dance Competition in Nyon, Switzerland (1999)
Best up-and-coming Young Dancer at the National Ballet Competition in Brno (2000)
First Prize at the International Ballet Competition - "Prix Carpeaux" (2002)

REPERTORY
Pallas Athena und Nausikaa in "Odyssey"
Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ballerina in "Petrushka"
Hippolyta/Titania and Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier, Manon Lescaut and Prudence in "Lady of the Camellias"
Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Aurora, The Good Fairy and Princess Florine in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Marie, The Chinese Bird and Esmeralda and the Clowns in "The Nutcracker"
Cinderella, the Stepmother and a Stepsister in "A Cinderella Story"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Giselle, Peasant Pas de deux and Moyna in "Giselle"
Elaine in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Rosalind in "As You Like It"
The Other - Ingrid, The green One, Anitra in "Peer Gynt"
Tamara Karsavina and Romola Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Constanze Weber in "Windows on MOZART"
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Michajlowna Saretschnaj in "The Seagull"
Sylvia in "Sylvia"
Tamara Karsavina in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desir"
Contemplator of the Moon in "Seven Haiku of the Moon"
Alma in "Purgatorio"
Ophelia (Pas de deux) in "Hamlet"
Eleonora Duse in "Duse"
Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
Nikiya in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
Lise in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
La Sylphide in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
An Old Woman, 300 years old and The Choosen one in "Le Sacre du Printemps" (Millicent Hodson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
Woman in Blue and in Pink in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)

REPERTORY
Joseph in "The Legend of Joseph"
A Young Man (Daphnis) in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Vaslav Nijinsky and Leonid Massine in "Nijinsky"
Günter and Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Des Grieux and Count N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
Puck and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Allan Gray in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Bohort in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Louis in "Liliom"
Arlequin in "Carnaval" and The Spirit of the rose in "Le Spectre de la rose" in "Nijinsky"
Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Ler Beau in "As You Like It"
Cassio in "Othello"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
Peer's Aspect – Vision in "Peer Gynt"
Pas de deux of the Scotts in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Man in Brick and Brown in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Shy Boy in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Gennaro in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

and solos in

Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Saint Matthew Passion
Vaslav
The Song of the Earth
La Vivandière (Pierre Lacotte after Arthur Saint-Léon)

Des Grieux, Monsieur Duval and The Duke in "Lady of the Camellias"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Cinderella's Father in "A Cinderella Story"
Boris Alexeyivich Trigorin in "The Seagull"
Edvard/The Prince in "The Little Mermaid"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) and Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
The Man in the Shadow, Prince Leopold and Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Liliom and Ficsur in "Liliom"
Tybalt and Lord Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Fenge in "Hamlet"
The King in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Hilarion in "Giselle"
A Soldier (Moresca Dance) in "Othello"
The Seducer (Gabriele D’Annunzio) in "Duse"
Peer's Aspect – Doubt in "Peer Gynt"
Gurn in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
A Friend in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
The First Man in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Prince Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Golfo and Peppo in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Lorenzo in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

REPERTORY
Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Horvendel in "Hamlet"
Charles in "As You Like It"
Lord Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet"
The three wise men in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Ilya Afanasevich Shamrajev and The Star of the Revue in "The Seagull"
Prince Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)

The Beautiful Girl from Granada in "The Nutcracker"
Bianca in "Othello"
Potiphar's Wife in "The Legend of Joseph"
Polina Andreyevna and The Star of the Revue in "The Seagull"
The Queen Mother, a Big Swan und the Butterfly in "Illusions - like 'Swan Lake'"
Eleonora Bereda und Bronislava Nijinska in "Nijinsky"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Prudence Duvernoy in "Lady of the Camellias"
Lady Capulet and Isabella in "Romeo and Juliet"
Audrey in "As You Like It"
An Old Woman, 300 years old and The Choosen one in "Le Sacre du Printemps" (Millicent Hodson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
The Wife in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
A Street Dancer in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

Performances

Katja Pieweck

Born in Hanover, Katja Pieweck completed her studies in 1996 at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Theater. From 1997 to 1999 she was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera which eventually led to her engagement as an ensemble member in 1999. Here she has performed many roles including Mercedes (Carmen), Siegrune (Die Walküre), Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Mutter (Hänsel und Gretel), Fenena (Nabucco), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Meg Page (Falstaff) und Marquise des Berkenfield (La Fille du Régiment). Katja Pieweck has made numerous appearances on prestigious opera stages including the Berlin Staatsoper, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Hanover State Opera. In addition to her activity as an opera singer She is a regular guest on the concert stage. Her repertoire includes works from all eras. Her career has been accompanied by numerous prizes and awards including the "Körber Foundation Oberdörfer Prize 2007" and the "Kulturpreis der Berenberg Bank Hamburg". In 2005 Katja Pieweck worked with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra for a concert performance of Janácek’s "Jenufa". In February 2006 she sang with the Philharmonic Orchestra Hamburg in Hindemith’s "Sancta Susanna" under Simone Young’s baton. In 2007 the mezzo-soprano performed as Elvira in "Don Giovanni" at the Herrenchiemsee Festival. She also sang the part for mezzo-soprano in Bach’s "Christmas Oratorio" – a new Hamburg Ballet production – choreographed by John Neumeier. 2008 Katja Pieweck sang Fricka (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre) in the production of Wagner’s "Ring".

Performances

Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Born in 1977 in the Bavarian town of Vilsbiburg, the bass Wilhelm Schwinghammer began his musical education as a chorister at the music school that trains the world-famous cathedral choir known as the Regensburger Domspatzen. He later studied singing with Harald Stamm at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Master classes with teachers like Kurt Moll and Marjana Lipovsek rounded off his education.

In 2004 he was a finalist at the 33rd German Federal Competition in Berlin and in 2009 he won second prize and the Audience Prize at the International ARD Music Competition. From 2003 he was for two years a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Hamburg. From 2006/2007 to 2016/17 Wilhelm Schwinghammer has been a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg Staatsoper: his repertoire included roles like Rocco (Fidelio), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Figaro (The Marriage Of Figaro), Colline (La Bohème), Don Basilio (The Barber Of Seville), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Il re (Aida), Lodovico (Otello), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Pietro (Simon Boccanegra), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Fafner (Siegfried), Daland (The Flying Dutchman), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), Titurel (Parsifal), König Marke (Tristan Und Isolde) and Hermit (Der Freischütz).

Wilhelm Schwinghammer made his debut at the 2005 Salzburg Festival in the role of the young Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata); at the 2011 Easter Festival in Salzburg he played Second Soldier (Salome) under Sir Simon Rattle (director Stefan Herheim). At the Bayreuth Festival he sang King Heinrich (Lohengrin) in the summers of 2012 to 2015. In 2014 and 2015 he also sang Fasolt (Das Rheingold). In the RSB Berlin concertante Wagner cycle under Marek Janowski he sang Biterolf (Tannhäuser) on stage and on the CD recording. In autumn of 2013 he made a guest appearance as König Marke (Tristan Und Isolde) in a new production with the National Opera of Washington and in the Richard Strauss anniversary year (2014) he sang Jörg Pöschel in the operatic poem "Feuersnot" in a concertante performance with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ulf Schirmer at the Prinzregententheater in that city. Further guest engagements took the artist to the Aalto-Theater in Essen (Figaro, Le Nozze Di Figaro), the Dresden Semperoper (Sarastro, The Magic Flute), the Bayerische Staatsoper (Titurel, Parsifal) and the Staatsoper Berlin (Pietro, Simon Boccanegra; Hermit, Der Freischütz; Sarastro, The Magic Flute; Osmin, Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail).

Performances

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.

Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy at St. Michaelis, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016 Nagano and the Philharmonic undertook a successful three-week concert tour in South America. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities.

The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet – John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 134 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only, which celebrates its 50-year anniversary in 2017/18.

In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. In 2012 Simone Young received a Helpmann Award for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Wagner’s Rheingold with the Philharmonic in Brisbane, Australia. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.

The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to the Hansa City’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. To this day, the TV format Musikkontakte initiated by Gerd Albrecht during his tenure as General Music Director is unforgotten. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.